Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which polishes.
- noun In bookbinding, a steel tool of rounded form, used for rubbing and polishing leather on book-covers.
- noun Same as
polissoir . - noun In marble-working, a hinged horizontal arm, carrying a polishing-disk. It is adjustable to various heights and is free to swing over the table on which the slabs of marble to be polished are laid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
- noun A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
- noun A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
- noun A person who refines something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a power tool used to buff surfaces
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Examples
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Meets the above guy, who, of course is a sword polisher, and ran across the wrong evil sword.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Demons - Mike Baron Blue Tyson 2006
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Also, what proportion, if any, would you attribute the homosexual subtext in TMWTGG to the 'polisher' or 'finisher' of the book as opposed to Ian Fleming himself?
CommanderBond.net 2009
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Also, what proportion, if any, would you attribute the homosexual subtext in TMWTGG to the 'polisher' or 'finisher' of the book as opposed to Ian Fleming himself?
CommanderBond.net 2009
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Also, what proportion, if any, would you attribute the homosexual subtext in TMWTGG to the 'polisher' or 'finisher' of the book as opposed to Ian Fleming himself?
CommanderBond.net 2009
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'polisher' or 'finisher' of the book as opposed to Ian Fleming himself?
CommanderBond.net 2009
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Even when it does, as in Joshua Mosley's tender, muted tale of a statue polisher, Mary Reid Kelley's epic, elaborate World War I dramatization, or Christine Rebet's awkwardly rendered two-screen account of Rococo-era gamblers and puppeteers, the story arch we expect from films - including cartoons - gets lost, usually deliberately, in the translation.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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Even when it does, as in Joshua Mosley's tender, muted tale of a statue polisher, Mary Reid Kelley's epic, elaborate World War I dramatization, or Christine Rebet's awkwardly rendered two-screen account of Rococo-era gamblers and puppeteers, the story arch we expect from films - including cartoons - gets lost, usually deliberately, in the translation.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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The problem was the rotary polisher marks and the dirt, rocks, sand and Sheetrock fragments rolled into the top finish.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Oh, hell no, I think, getting up to get my nail polisher remover, this is not acceptable.
Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011
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The problem was the rotary polisher marks and the dirt, rocks, sand and Sheetrock fragments rolled into the top finish.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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